Replying to: Ray Pratts <pratts AT IBM DOT NET> (Thu, 23 Apr 1998 18:01:24 
-0500)
>ADSMers,
>ADSMers,
>
>I have a 3570 which will not mount scratch tapes.  It had been working
>fine until last Thursday.  Then each time a scratch tape is requested
>ADSM writes this error message:
>
>        ANR8779E Unable to open drive /dev/rmt1, error number=47.
>
>We get the error on both rmt1 and rmt2.  It will mount and read/write
>data tapes.  We've had a CE check out the hardware.  Yesterday, my
>colleague spent 5 hours with ADSM support.  The support person thinks
>it's a hardware problem.   But I'm not so sure, since it can read/write
>data tapes.  Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

You didn't mention your server platform, but if it's AIX, Error #47 is
"Write-protected media". Did you check if the tapes are write protected? The
error is on the device, but... Still assuming it's AIX, what does the system
errorlog reports?

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